Ridgeway - Gilman City is a very small town located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 3,202 people and just one neighborhood, Ridgeway - Gilman City is the 198th largest community in Missouri. Ridgeway - Gilman City has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.
Ridgeway - Gilman City is a blue-collar town, with 35.07% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ridgeway - Gilman City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ridgeway - Gilman City who work in management occupations (11.43%), sales jobs (10.02%), and teaching (9.32%).
In terms of college education, the citizens of Ridgeway - Gilman City rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.56% of adults 25 and older in Ridgeway - Gilman City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Ridgeway - Gilman City in 2022 was $25,929, which is middle income relative to Missouri, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,716 for a family of four. However, Ridgeway - Gilman City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ridgeway - Gilman City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ridgeway - Gilman City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ridgeway - Gilman City include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Ridgeway - Gilman City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.4% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 30.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Ridgeway - Gilman City, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.